ODROID-C2 won't boot to Arch but it will to Ubuntu [SOLVED]

[graysky]

I followed the installation instructions verbatim to a 32G microSDHC UHS-1 card. When I insert the card into the ODROID and power up the board, I get a solid red and solid blue LED but nothing on the HDMI. The yellow LED on the network port is mostly off but occasionally, flashes. I did not receive any errors from sd_fusing.sh and if I look at the root filesystem from the tarball, it looks as expected.

I tried the latest ubuntu image to see if something is up with ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c2-latest.tar.gz and the ubuntu image boots as expected. Any suggestions for troubleshooting are appreciated.

[ivo]

I have exactly the same problem, just received my odroid-c2, I followed the procedure multiple times, re-downloaded the image a few times - it just stalls with red and blue light on, nothing else happens. According to the odroid-c2 manual - blue light solid means U-boot is working, it seems like kernel is not taking over. Ubuntu installs ok, but I do not want Ubuntu.

Any suggestions

[cmsigler]

Hi,

I had no problems with my Odroid-C2 installation at the end of April and have kept it up-to-date with pacman since.

Have you tried an older installation image? You might look here, for example, from the Arch Linux ARM Rollback Machine. That link is a repo from June 1, but you can go up and down the directory tree for earlier or later files. HTH

Clemmitt

[graysky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cmsigler', 'H')ave you tried an older installation image?

[graysky]

Well, the problem must be in the relevant packages on my trusty Arch x86_64 workstation that I was using to make the image because if I boot the the Ubuntu 16.04 live environment and make the image there, it works as expected

On Arch:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'fdisk is 2.28
dd is 8.25
e2fsprogs is 1.43.1')

Dunno about Ubuntu nor do I know the source of the problem but that is the solution. I used the latest image (date is 01-July and md5sum is cd6e28eba824c46668a9bd6948050840).

WTF?

[WarheadsSE]

Agreed, WTF. Not an ALARM issue though

[graysky]

Well, hopefully others searching will find this thread and know what to do. Enjoying the C2 now.

[WarheadsSE]

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=10563#p52593

This seems to have an answer e2fsprogs changes some default options, apparently.

[graysky]

Ah! Would you consider changing the installation instructions informing users of this? I'd bet a good percentage of our user base are also Arch users (thus e2fsprog >=1.43).

[WarheadsSE]

It is being looked into.